Middle School

L'Ecole Bilingue

Our vision is that the garden be used as a platform to educate children about food literacy. Students can grow food using organic pest control methods, harvest produce, and save seeds. Composting teaches about nutrient cycles. With a cooking program, the children learn proper food prep and use all their senses to discover the goodness of whole foods.

J. W. Sexsmith Elementary

The long term goal of our garden program is to grow the students understanding that their choices will impact their future and the future of their planet. This understanding will be fostered by the short term goals of how healthy food choices impact their bodies; the joy and art of gardening; growing and preparing healthy food; purchasing locally grown foods support local economies and produce jobs for themselves and their communities; recycling and composting reduce waste and pollution - basically - how to integrate healthy living and sustainability practices into their lifestyles.

Holy Rosary - Wea Catholic School

We have long recognized the many benefits of incorporating a garden into our curriculum at school.

First, we hope to utilize our garden as the centerpoint for our Wellness Plan. It will provide so many hands on opportunities to continue our teaching about healthy eating and physical activity. It will help reinforce our Power Panther program, "Eat Smart, Play Hard" , by involving all of our students in planning, creating, maintaining, and harvesting our garden.

Guadalupe Montessori School

The goal of the GMS garden is to grow fresh produce for our school's lunch program, provide educational and enrichment opportunities for the school and the community, and to market excess produce and create value added products to support the garden.

Our goal for this grant is to purchase the materials and build a production greenhouse. This project would have benefits both for the school and for the community.

Grant Middle School

The goals of the gardening project are to expand the raised bed gardening areas; produce additional vegetables that will be used by the BIP students and in the after school Cooking Venture and grow vegetables, flowers and herbs for the Spring Growers Market. The gardening project will also serve as an outdoor classroom for the BIP and Cooking Venture students to learn about geology, water, plant life cycles, native plants, measurements, cooking and life skills such as cooperation and problem solving.

This program is supported by Youth Development, Inc - YDI.

Beechcroft High School

The mission of the community garden is: The Good Seed Community Garden is an effort put forth by both our church and the community members of Sharon Woods to unify and celebrate our neighborhood.

Since its inception, the Good Seed Community Garden has been partnering with the students at Beechcroft High School. Their service learning projects have enriched the community and the school, bringing fresh ideas and beautiful additions to the space.

W.T.Cooke Elementary School

Our main focus will be on sustainability through gardening, reducing, reusing, and recycling. Students will get to experience the pleasures of planning, growing, and consuming their own fresh vegetables and of producing, through the work of their own hands, food for others. They will also begin to understand the possibilities of recycling by transforming things that were considered trash into usable objects and valuable compost. We will make it a goal this year to use recycled or reclaimed items where ever possible.

Forestville Union School District

Our goal is to provide a garden experience that encourages and allows students and the school community to work together to create an outdoor learning adventure that grows good scholars, leaders, friends, and stewards of the earth! Children who use organizational and math skills to plan what to plant, and how to do it, become better scholars. Children who take on leadership responsibilities, such as teaching a group of younger students what a Three-Sisters garden is and how to plant one, practice leadership skills.

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